An investigation was continuing Wednesday into the vandalism of a glass door at the Chabad House at USC, but police said they do not believe the damage rises to the level of a hate crime.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers from the USC Department of Public Safety responded to the house in the 2700 block of Severance Street around 9:15 p.m. Tuesday.
Police said four suspects, described only as “male juveniles,” approached the building and two of them ran to the glass front door of the building, “and one kicked it, causing damage.”
“The juveniles fled the scene on bicycles,” police said in a statement. “LAPD Southwest Detectives responded to the location and gook a vandalism report. Based on preliminary information, this incident did not rise to the level of a hate crime.”
“What goes through somebody’s mind walking up to somebody’s front door and kicking it …